Get the Daily Moon Phases widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) so just when our calendar makes sense now we need to consider moon phases. what is the best source of info to guide us in planting along with the moon. i remember this being a...

years of scheduling complicated productions and pipelines may prove to be completely useless as a farmer, but at least as a learning exercise it sure helped us wrap our heads around planting seeds. Which is intricately related to green house square footage, row feet in the garden and most importantly getting some mixture of food...

we took some old recycling containers and used them to get our indoor compost going with the help from some carbon sawdust from the stable. so far we are generating a grocery bag of trash per weekend – not terrible considering we are mid move and unpacking like crazy. ARK came to visit today and...

It feels like a big step to be letting go of burningman and our mutant vehicle discomo who consumed hundreds of hours of our time over the years. The fact is that while i am sure we can make something work without a car, it is not clear that is the best use of our...

right now we are shopping in the city and bringing up what we need. i guess backpacks are a regular sight around here with the Appalachian train trail just a few miles away – including its own metro north train stop. this week we came packed with hardware including a 73″ window shade movie screen. ...

my parents hooked us up with a uhaul full of awesome stuff. they were overjoyed to clean out their house of years of accumulated things and we got lots of useful stuff for indoors and out. hard to tell in the photo but there is all kinds of stuff in there as my mom also...

with such a list of endless tasks ahead it is hard to keep the balance of dreaming about the whole while remaining focused on each task at hand to move the whole forward. very easy to lose sight of why and lose touch with the best way to use each moment. amber took this foto...

so i have been researching cars and the short answer is that we are going to try to do without as long as we can. the cost of owning is just a big money sink. this weekend i drove a uhaul from boston full of second hand scores (another story) and found that we have...

Oh, that’s a delicious looking jar of vanilla-almond tea you’ve got there. What’s that you say? Not just tea? Kombucha? Next weekend is going to be badass. One good thing about only coming up on weekends in that there’s no watched-kettle syndrome with the ferments. I’m also feeding the sourdough starters for the first time...